If you haven't had a chance to watch the Fantasy Premier League show on NBC Sports, now's the time.

Last week, we announced that NBC Sports were adding 4 new shows to their app and online. Goal Rush has already been a hit among many soccer fans, but the one program that has flown under the radar so far is Fantasy Premier League, which is hosted by James Richardson from The Guardian's Football Weekly podcast fame.

If you haven't had a chance to watch the Fantasy Premier League show on NBC Sports, now's the time.

Last week, we announced that NBC Sports were adding 4 new shows to their app and online. Goal Rush has already been a hit among many soccer fans, but the one program that has flown under the radar so far is Fantasy Premier League, which is hosted by James Richardson from The Guardian's Football Weekly podcast fame.

We've all been in the same boat before where we've struggled to make decisions on how to select for our Fantasy Premier League or similar fantasy soccer games. Often times, we used a mixture of wisdom but hunches. It's those hunches that feel great at the time, but can come back to haunt us later when they don't pay off.

We've all been in the same boat before where we've struggled to make decisions on how to select for our Fantasy Premier League or similar fantasy soccer games. Often times, we used a mixture of wisdom but hunches. It's those hunches that feel great at the time, but can come back to haunt us later when they don't pay off.

If you've been searching for an EPL draft fantasy game similar to ones you're used to for the NFL or baseball, your wait is over. A company named Togga recently launched a draft commissioner site for soccer fans. Based in Austin, Togga built its EPL fantasy game to fill a void where other fantasy Premier League games are lacking —to give soccer fans and their friends and co-workers a fantasy soccer game that features an American-style draft.

If you've been searching for an EPL draft fantasy game similar to ones you're used to for the NFL or baseball, your wait is over. A company named Togga recently launched a draft commissioner site for soccer fans. Based in Austin, Togga built its EPL fantasy game to fill a void where other fantasy Premier League games are lacking —to give soccer fans and their friends and co-workers a fantasy soccer game that features an American-style draft.

Every year, I push myself to make a fantasy soccer side. Usually based around the English Premier League, I pick my side that is going to see me top the world. And then I leave it. This year, I still have Olivier Giroud in the team, despite him being injured until the turn of the year. Two years ago, Alex Song stayed in my side for an entire season, despite him moving fromArsenalto Barcelona.

As the dawn of the new European soccer season draws closer, millions of people around the world are spending coffee mornings, lunch breaks and spare evenings deciding between Sanchez or Costa, Lewandowski or Immobile, Bale or Suarez, and other combinations. But with the constant transformation of real-time markets, the bug has finally caught fantasy soccer and with it a company named Light Speed Games has created fantasy leagues for the top four European Leagues (Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A and La Liga) with the Serie A game being the most popular fantasy game for Serie A on the web.

It's that time of the year again, when we push our English Premier League prognostication and pick the best XI possible. Join our Fantasy Premier League byvisiting http://fantasy.premierleague.com/ Log in or sign up. Pick your team. Join our league. The code to join is: 307019-93283 Enjoy the tom foolery.

No matter your experience or expertise in relation to playing Fantasy Premier League, odds are your most essential objective is to finish as high in overall rank as possible. Naturally, anyone who signs up for FPL for the first time is automatically placed in the overall pool, and you can monitor their overall rank week to week.

Those of you familiar with the independent film of the early 80's may recall a documentary titled Koyaanisqatsi. It was a mesmerizing journey through the impact of man on the earth throughout our history, featuring some beautifulimages, while many of them were grim. The film title is derived from a phrase used by the Hopi tribe that means "life out of balance".

Before the start of every Fantasy Premier League season, veterans of the game such as myself have their own version of Christmas morning when the game goes live, and more importantly, when the prices of players are released. Much scrutinization occurs over the next several weeks over which players look a value at the start of the season.

The Fantasy Premier League game isn't just about goals, assists and clean sheets. That would be too simple. No, there's much more to it than that, and that is what makes this game so intriguing. It is as complex and absorbing as a manager chooses to make it. This game is about prediction. No one has the superpower of predicting everything spot on.

You can make some great decisions in the Fantasy Premier League game: bringing the right players in and out at the right time, choosing the right defenders to bench each week, and so on. But the most important decision, the one that will make or break your Gameweek more often than not is choosing the right captain.

This week's Fantasy Premier League tips focus on the precious wildcard. If well-timed, the wildcard can be an opportunity to make huge strides with your side as you yearn to climb the rankings. It is a tense feeling, that moment in the transfer section of the game when you click "Play wildcard" and open Pandora's Box.

Editor's note:Today's Fantasy Premier League feature marks the debut of a brand-new weekly feature on World Soccer Talk â€” Fantasy Premier League Strategist â€” written by FPL expert Steve Rothgeb where he offers several inside tips to help you increase your FPL point score each week.

We recently reviewed EPL Fantasy Commissioner, a new online game that allows you to set up your fantasy football league just like they do in the NFL and other traditional American sports. But if you're looking for a more traditional fantasy football game, FanXT also offers Fantasy English Premiership, a Premier League football manager game.

Registration is now open for the 2013-14 Fantasy Premier League season. The game is free to play. And, if you like, you can join the World Soccer Talk private league.

Last season, we had 4,259 of you that played in the private league version for our site. And quite often, especially earlier in the season, we were ranked in the top 3 best performing private leagues worldwide.

British comedian and talk show host John Oliver tackled the topic of daily fantasy sports games on his Last Week Tonight show on HBO Sunday night. And Oliver didn't hold anything back in his criticism of the misleading advertising by two sites in particular — DraftKings and Fanduel.

For soccer fans, the story is particularly disturbing given that FOX Sports is a major investor in DraftKings, while MLS is a DraftKings partner.

British comedian and talk show host John Oliver tackled the topic of daily fantasy sports games on his Last Week Tonight show on HBO Sunday night. And Oliver didn't hold anything back in his criticism of the misleading advertising by two sites in particular — DraftKings and Fanduel.

For soccer fans, the story is particularly disturbing given that FOX Sports is a major investor in DraftKings, while MLS is a DraftKings partner.

If you've watched any sports programming on US television during the past fewweeks, you will have likely seen or heard TV commercials to play in a daily sports fantasy game for a chance to win large sums of money. But what is this phenomenon all about? Can you really win cash, and howare these games legal in the United States?

There are lots of fantasy soccer games out there, but a new site named Mondogoal has brought something unique and refreshing to the table. Mondogoal has set up a fantasy soccer game where you can compete for cash, every single match day. Combined with a beautiful and easy-to-use design, Mondogoal has emerged as a best-of-breed fantasy soccer game.

It's that time of the season where the transfer deadline day has ended, the first international break of the season is upon us, and we have time to sit on our hands to contemplate what we should do to improve our Fantasy Premier League team.

As mentioned in last week's column, there's always a wild card to be played, and this is the first Gameweek of the season where one can validate its use.

Well, the first gameweek of the Fantasy Premier League season is complete. There's plenty to digest as we get a first real evaluation of how teams are shaping up in reality and what the repercussions are in fantasy. There is no other gameweek during the FPL season that has more impact on deciding what to do with your team more than the aftermath of GW1 heading into GW2.

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